JON KRAKAUER“It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificent activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.”
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ABOUT JON KRAKAUERJon Krakauer is a best-selling American non-fiction writer, primarily known for his books on the outdoors. His freelance writing has appeared in many magazines including National Geographic Magazine and Rolling Stone. He was a journalist for Outside magazine, which led him to be a participant in the 1996 disaster at Mount Everest later described in Into Thin Air (1997). He is a talented mountain climber himself, and his first book Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (1990) is a collection of articles on mountaineering and rock climbing. He reached national prominence with his second book, Into the Wild (1996), which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for two years. Krakauer's later work goes beyond the outdoors and deeper into investigative journalism. Other books cover extremist religious practices and the story of Pat Tillman, the professional football player who gave up his career to join the U.S. Army and was killed in the line of duty. In 2015, he published a powerful series of stories on campus rape at the University of Montana in a book titled Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town.
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GREAT QUOTES FROM JON KRAKAUER"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild "But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind." - Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air INTERESTING LINKS:
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